Monday, December 10, 2012

Flextronics and Google-owned Motorola Mobility LLC announced today that the companies have signed a definitive agreement, under which Flextronics will acquire Motorola's manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China, and will also assume the management and operation of its Jaguariuna, Brazil, facility.

To help budget-strapped classrooms across the U.S., for the holiday season, teachers can request the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook at a special, discounted price of $99 including hardware, management and support.

Imagination Technologies Group has signed a revised agreement to acquire the operating business and certain patent properties, as well as license rights to all of the remaining patent properties, of MIPS Technologies, Inc. for a cash consideration of US$80 million.

Silicon Image today announced the UltraGig 6400, a complete WirelessHD transmitter for mobile devices that integrates a 60GHz RF transceiver, baseband processor, and embedded antenna array into a single IC package.

Samsung is teasing with a short video posted online on Youtube, regarding the a new launch between January 8 and 11, which are the dates of Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013. Will it be the new Galaxy S4 smartphone?

TSMC, the world's biggest contract chipmaker, said on Monday today its net sales for November 2012 were approximately NT$43.64 billion, a decrease of 11.4 percent over October 2012 and an increase of 23.9 percent over November 2011.

IBM says it has developed a chip that makes it easier to shuttle data about via pulses of light instead of using electrical signals. The technology - called "silicon nanophotonics" - allows the integration of different optical components side-by-side with electrical circuits on a single silicon chip using, for the first time, sub-100nm semiconductor technology.

Toshiba has developed a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) that achieves the lowest power consumption yet reported, indicating that it has the potential to surpass the power consumption efficiency of SRAM as cache memory.